Overview

- Glaciers of Valgrisenche Valley (Grande Sassière) -

This long valley has the same features as the previous or Rhêmes Valley, in fact possesses a greater number of glaciers (24 vs. 17), but the placement of these deals primarily with the head of the same Valdisere the border with France. The great Glacier Gliairetta, in connection with that of Vaudet at the foot of the Great Wall North-northeast Sassière (3.751m), extends towards the Sources of the Valgrisenche Torrent, near which are the famous "pots/saucepans", large holes dug in the smooth rock where the waters raging boil.
It is distinguished from previous watershed West, ie between Valgrisenche and La Thuile Valley, where in contrast to the first that offered only the Glacier du Torrent with some evidence, here are the great masses of glacial Group Rutor (3.486m), though certainly smaller than the same flaunts on the opposite side, namely La Thuile. The watershed Eastern Europe, and between Valgrisenche/Rhêmes Valleys, offers the same and similar characteristics: a few modest glaciers gradually tend to disappear along the South/North. A "backlash" offer it, at the end of this long partition the two Glaciers Tzaboc or Luetta and Tos, so that the latter still offers significant opportunities for ski-mountaineering, as well as the Glacier of Espine, also called Bouque Glacier, at the foot of the iced Northern Face of homonym Summit, in glacial cirque between this and the Mont Forciaz. Well another matter, however, on the opposite side where the long Glacier Château Blanc offers great opportunities for heli-skiing, often beyond measure used. Other glaciers are put on display more regarding their flanks cloaked and not that spectacular as is now really small, at the base of their faces; so for the Northeast Slopes of the Glaciers of Plattes des Chamois, Becca Suessa, Suzei and Ormelune Summits to the West and the East Slopes of Punta Bassac and the Grande Rousse (3.607/3.577m), Top Southern, to the East. Some of these are now "consecrated" to the discipline of ski-mountaineering, others are difficult or impossible journey, as the last two mentioned.
It is still a valley rich in water, so that in the fifties had built the Artificial Lake of Valgrisenche (Dam of Beauregard), and the same was closed a few years ago, due to the hazardous nature of the surrounding land is very vulnerable to landslides, and is waiting for the complete dismantling. Two lakes, one small or Lac Vert (2.620m) just to the West of Refuge Mario Bezzi (2.284m) at Vaudet Alp, and another nice size and from the blue-green or Lake Saint Grat (2.462m) at the Southern base of the Becca du Lac, enrich the framework, other small lakes nearby the Glacier Morion, under the Rutor and the Angeli Shelter (2.694m; ex Refuge Scavarda) to complete the speech further evidence of a major expansion over the past centuries.